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Current Emergencies

Thanks to the ever-growing number of offices around the world, it takes the UNICEF emergency response teams less than 48 hours to respond to distress – supplying food, medical equipment, and so much more. Discover which parts of the world are seeking our help by clicking on the latest emergency appeals below. You can also find out what you can do to help us relieve their suffering.

    • Tents serve as temporary shelters for families who lost homes in the earthquake in Kashmir. This photo was taken by Saad, 14. Photo: UNICEF/HQ06-1242/Saad Jahangir
    • Emergencies
    • Help UNICEF to be prepared when aid is urgently needed.
    • A woman and her children take sit in ‘Hanna Praville’, a camp for people displaced by successive tropical storms and hurricanes in Haiti November 2008. UNICEF/NYHQ2008-1409/LeMoyne
    • Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal
    • UNICEF is urgently appealing for emergency assistance to aid the victims of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, which rocked the Caribbean island on 12 January 2010.
    • Kenya and Ethiopia food crisis.
    • Horn of Africa Food Crisis
    • Children and families in the Horn of Africa are experiencing severe shortages of food and water, due to factors including drought and rising food prices, which have been made dramatically worse by climate change.
    • A child wanders through the ruble of destroyed houses in Padang's city center on the morning of October 3, 2009. UNICEF Indonesia/2009/Josh Estey
    • Asia-Pacific Disasters Children's Appeal
    • In the last week of September 2009, three separate natural disasters hit the Asia-Pacific region. Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines, a tsunami in the Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga, and an earthquake in Indonesia.
    • A small boy receives fluids intravenously at a hospital in the central region of Galguduud. Most of the children at the hospital suffer from malaria and malnutrition, and have been displaced from their homes by drought and conflict. Image © UNICEF/NYHQ2009-0629/Kamber
    • Somalia Children's Appeal
    • The situation for children in Somalia is desperate. Following the worst violence in 17 years, the failure of another season of rains and the economic crisis, more than 3.25 million people in Somalia are now in need of assistance, including around 650,000 children under the age of five.
    • A woman and boy wait to register at the Jalala Camp for the displaced, created to accommodate people fleeing the conflict. Image: UNICEF/NYHQ2009-0507/Paradela
    • Pakistan Children's Appeal
    • Millions of people have been forced from their homes due to fighting between government forces and militants in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) on the border with Afghanistan.
    • Palestinian boy standing in the debris of a destroyed house in Gaza City. Photo: UNICEF/oPt/Iyad El Baba
    • Palestine Children's Appeal
    • Life for Palestinian children in recent years has been difficult, but the recent conflict in Gaza means it has worsened dramatically.
    • Heavy fighting continues in North Kivu Province of DR Congo, causing humanitarian relief to be temporarily suspended throughout most of the province. Photo: UNICEF 2008/DRC/Julien Harneis
    • Conflict in the DR of Congo
    • Heavy fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has caused up to 1 million people to flee their homes, 60% of whom are children.